Since there are no movie scenes of Aragorn travelling the rest of the way to Helm’s Deep in the company of Gimli and Legolas, I wonder what Shamus will do for the next strip. Skip straight ahead to Helm’s Deep, is my guess.

This one was so good, I just had to call someone to talk it. Naturally it being a work day, no one was reachable besides my mother. So I told her. (Yes, my mother. I’m a geek. My dad’s a geek. She understands.) I started with the webcomic in general and then explained the connection between the comic and geeks quoting LotR, Princess Bride, and Monty Python (Holy Grail in particular) during gaming sessions.

“Since there are no movie scenes of Aragorn travelling the rest of the way to Helm's Deep in the company of Gimli and Legolas, I wonder what Shamus will do for the next strip. Skip straight ahead to Helm's Deep, is my guess.”

Couple options:
1. Use pictures from earlier, before the Warg attack.

2. Have Aragorn’s player miss a couple games and have the DM rule that since he wasn’t there, they had him do nothing. Including travel. So he gets left behind. Plenty of fun opportunities for conversation there. Especially if you have him cheese off the DM and then use the shot of him and the oncoming Uruk-Hai army. Maybe something about wanting more combat.Or spilling a drink.

3. Cutscene to the Star Wars campaign. Prove the old adage that the only thing worse than a bad DM is a player who thinks they can do better. Gives a reason to bring ’em back too.

4. Something involving the revelation the priest only cast slow disease (slow poison’s lesser known cousin) and the entire procession leaves Aragorn traveling way way behind them. Out of range of the smell.

Better yet would be PCs that ask every new NPC how many fingers they have on their right hand.

Yeah, for a time both Monty Python and Princess Bride quotes were banned from one of the campaigns I was in. Probably Star Wars, too. Oh yeah, and the “shooters here and shooters here,” line from Ronin, SPECIFICALLY.

Just watched another parody with Peter Falk – “The Cheap Detective” any Bogart fans out there, check it out.
But the Princess Bride… Oh, I’ll have to watch that again (tomorrow night, to cheer up someone else who is sick).

Nogard_Codesmith: I’m a fool. That would have made abetter joke. I can’t believe I missed it.

Cory: I’m happy with the first panel as well. It’s a composite. The top is actually a photograph my wife took at one point. The two shots blended nicely.

I really like the tall panel shots, but it’s impossible to pull off without a little photoshopping. (Note that I did this once before, when Boromir died. The limited resolution of the movie means this tall images will end up blurry unless I can stitch multiple images together.

I have a few more like this in the queue. I like doing it, but it isn’t often I can.

I really have to stop reading this comic at work. I already had 2 times I laughed so hard everyone looked at me. Worse, if someone asks what’s it all about, they rarely get the joke -_- . I even tried to explain the joke about ShrÃ¶dinger’s cat (about 2 or 3 comics back) to a curious colleague but gave up when it became clear he never even heard of quantum mechanics.

Thought here, if you do have the player for Arigorn gone for a few days, you can always have the other players doing things then have one go, “oh and don't forget Aragorn” who is shown standing there with a vacant stare. My players always forget pets, familiars, and npc's. All of which just kind of pop in when needed. (I forget too sometimes.)

as unbelievable as is sounds monty python is rarely quoted in my current game. staying on task is no better than any other game i’ve ever run but that has a lot to do with me. (frcs campaign heavy on plot, light on combat, and with the screwiest character being the elf…) i really like this comic in how it points out what a horrible dm i really am. thanks.
i will say that the recurring jokes from earlier sessions are some of my favorite things in the world.

March 15th, 2007 at 4:48 am
Yes, everyone's with the ha ha at Princess Bride quoting. Spare a thought for us poor 7th Sea GMs, who must spend at least 45 minutes per session getting people to stop quoting the Princess Flipping Bride. On reading this, my reaction was “I feel your pain”.

The games I’m in seem to feature as many musical quotes as movie lines.
If we fast forward past an uneventful period: “Let’s do the time warp again!”
If a foe fumbles two or more times: “He’s a loser baby, so why don’t you kill him…”
And of course, a rogue in a helpful combat position earns a: “Flank you very much, flank you very much…”

We once ended up having an Amber campaign titled “Could be worse… could be stabbed” due to my using the statement once near the start of the first game… and somehow it still became funnier every time we used it instead of the usual deterioration that has been known to happen…

I must admit that many of our games will wander off and combat often takes weeks due to the fact that at least half of the group has gamed together on and off for the last twenty-two years. Pretty much since we started high school… three of us have been known to reduced Game Masters to tears of both frustration and laughter in the same night

And to further up my geek cred: We game on Friday night… talk about no life

We’ve moved _our_ games from Sundays to Saturdays (once a month, no biggie) and all of us are very stoked – where we previously ordered pizza, Chinese takeout, or other stuff from restaurants, we now cook and contribute wine, salad and garlic bread to the main dish. So now, instead of a geeky sideshow, we have a communal, morale-building experience, regardless of the game’s outcome; it going to be fun just seeing each other. If not for the gaming night we would have fewer jokes to share, bizarre ideas and be wayyy too serious all the time.
This week, it’s simple – I make the sauce with fresh tomatoes and peppers (roasted), reduced in the saucepot, it goes into tupperware and the DM cooks the pasta, ready for our arrival. Molto benne!